Palaeofavosites schmidti

Palaeofavosites schmidti

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PaleofavositesPBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 438.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.9 Mya to 433.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 9 of 21 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 12 of 21 occurrencesSilurian450–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence449–449 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 1 occurrence443–442 Mya — about 3 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 3 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 3 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 2 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449.5 Mya438.8 Mya450.4 Mya433 Mya

21 occurrences of Palaeofavosites schmidti on record, most of them in the Silurian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

21 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

3 formations

Tamsalu — 58.91°N, 23.47°ETamsalu — 58.93°N, 23.75°ETamsalu — 58.87°N, 22.95°ETamsalu — 58.91°N, 23.43°ETamsalu — 59.17°N, 26.13°EKõrgessaare — 58.95°N, 22.43°EÄrina — 59.19°N, 26.20°E

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The named rock units Palaeofavosites schmidti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeofavosites schmidti and its relatives

Silurian

Where Palaeofavosites schmidti and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

83 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Palaeofavosites schmidti, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 21 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Palaeofavosites schmidti

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Palaeofavosites schmidti was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sokolov 1951